Former Sen. Sam Ervin of North Carolina, who died Tuesday at 88, was what is sometimes called a character. Those who watched him preside over the Watergate hearings will long remember and smile about ...

Former Sen. Sam Ervin (D-NC), who chaired the Senate Watergate Committee in the spring of 1973 and became a national figure in the process, dies of respiratory failure. He was 88. Ervin started off ...

If you are what we euphemistically like to call a "veteran" Reds fan, you no doubt remember watching the sixth game of the 1975 World Series between the Big Red Machine and the Boston Red Sox. You ...

I was 14 years old in the summer of 1973, and I was becoming disillusioned with our government. We had a president in office whose top aides were involved in trying to subvert the electoral process.

On a Saturday night in October 1973, U.S. Sen. Sam Ervin was dining at Asheville’s Grove Park Inn with hundreds of fellow North Carolina Democrats when an aide came up and whispered in his ear.

SALISBURY – If Sam J. Ervin is elected to the Supreme Court of North Carolina, he could tip the balance of the court, political analysts say, which now leans conservative 4-3. But Ervin, an N.C. Court ...

Court of Appeals Judge Sam Ervin IV said Tuesday that he plans to run for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court next year. Court of Appeals Judge Sam Ervin IV said Tuesday that he plans to run ...

For the past nine months, President Donald Trump’s strategy of obfuscation and delay has successfully denied the House of Representatives the witnesses and evidence it needs to document and publicize ...

A Super Pac created to help the incumbent Paul Newby maintain his seat on the court has attracted national attention to this race. However, Sam Ervin IV hopes critcs are not happy about big money in ...

Education: I am a product of the City of Morganton and Burke County public schools. I earned an A.B., magna cum laude, from Davidson College in 1978 and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in ...

Sam Ervin, who died Tuesday at age 88, was the perfect senator to head the Watergate hearings in 1973. While President Nixon so loved power, the Constitution was the first love of the gentleman from ...